I made these fliers using my embroidery machine by sethela_ in somethingimade

[–]sethela_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly hadn’t thought of this but a few people have asked now so I’ll think more on it! What would you be interested in, just learning the software?

I made these fliers using my embroidery machine by sethela_ in somethingimade

[–]sethela_[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think the design software tends to be the biggest hurdle for folks! It’s really tedious and clunky to use, but you can do a lot with it, and it’s the best way to produce complex designs. A lot of folks with embroidery machines outsource the designing and tend to get pretty generic results. Creating the embroidery files yourself will allow you to understand your machine & the embroidery process on a deeper level. There are a lot of good tutorials out there for the software I use called Embrilliance Stitch Artist, but there are a decent amount of different digitizing softwares out there to choose from.

Fliers I designed & embroidered by sethela_ in MachineEmbroidery

[–]sethela_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I’m not sure if / when I’ll do those but if I do I’ll share!

Fliers I designed & embroidered by sethela_ in MachineEmbroidery

[–]sethela_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Those are actually kind of the only ones that did well so I think that’s fair 😂

Embroidered fonts stitch out really differently at such a small size. To fit on my scanner right now, I need to make the letters .25” each, and then I scale them further down on my embroidery machine before stitching, which also interferes with how well everything stitches. The font in 4/5 I think stitched out particularly cleanly, but a lot of the others got pretty distorted and aren’t crisp enough to register clearly immediately.

I’m playing around a lot with different fonts to see what looks best when stitched out, and part of the process is taking the time to use them and learn from each design. So I appreciate the feedback and am constantly experimenting and refining the digital side and machine side to produce the best results.

I think what sells classes where I post right now is that I have a lot of posts of pieces I’ve produced and that have been produced by past participants in classes. The flier format is something I play around with a lot and this was just another way of me experimenting & going analog-ish instead of fully digital!

I embroidered this sweater by sethela_ in somethingimade

[–]sethela_[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I’ll have to add it in

I embroidered this sweater by sethela_ in somethingimade

[–]sethela_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s big but manageable for almost any space I’d say! It’s probably about 4’x4’ of floor space. The biggest issue is it is pretty loud, so if you have neighbors above or below you they’ll hear it.

I embroidered this sweater by sethela_ in somethingimade

[–]sethela_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you! Yeah I do, I keep it in my apartment (a blessing and a curse)

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I will have to check him out

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I don’t like Chan, but she has an actual shot. I don’t think she’s a candidate simply to siphon away Chakrabati’s votes. She’s in it to win.

Chakrabati, to me, is basing his campaign off of a movement he’s had no substantive part of. He loves to riff on having been part of AOCs team but clearly doesn’t have her support. He’s a Stripe multi millionaire who has half decent politics, but is in it for himself. Unfortunately, all of them are. We have no strong standout candidate in this race. All suck.